Being Mentally Normal: The Theory and The Actuality

[Mitchy1nge]

we must be on part 11 or something by now?

I got bored with it when it started getting really soapy and focussing on the staff's love lives instead of the patients' hilarious injuries. Also, I'd recently moved in with DP, and got fed up with him ripping the piss out of me for watching it

Soap is horrible. I don't know how you can eat that stuff. Paper, on the other hand...

Doesn't soap taste...soapy? I must admit I've never tried it, but never say never

It's salty and foul, Millie.

I once had it written in my notes in hospital that I was using soap to make myself vomit, for attention I wasn't; I was vomiting because of a paracetamol overdose, and the dents on the soap were from where it had fallen in the sink.

But it is horrible enough to make you sick.

No it's wonderful.

But casualty has begun and I can't persuade you otherwise because I have to watch.

I used to eat paper too, come to think of it. Scrapbook paper, preferentially

We call casualty "guess who dies"
OH has worked in a&e, so is a bit blasé

Yeah, never watch a medical drama with a medic

No Yojimbo. Documentary about science fiction instead.

He's not a medic (he's just a pita) ;)

Oops, sorry Millie - I guess it's the same with anyone who works in hospitals though

Documentary wasn't grabbing me.

Am useless at formatting. Meant bold, not italic, obvs.

Casualty is terrifying, involves people in masks which I hate. Ugh. I'm having to watch through my fingers.

I can't watch Casualty. The plots are so flimsy and having worked in hospitals it makes me want to pull my nails out.

I'm still irrationally annoyed at therapist, she was v v non-fluffy today, I actually said to her that neither of us were in the right place, after which she backtracked a bit
The problem is, she's about 100 (slight exaggeration), with lots of experience, so I feel it's mostly for my own good
I think she just wanted to move me on from my stuckness and stubbornness, but I'm not sure it worked :/ Or maybe it has worked and it will only become evident in the next few days

One housemate and one close frown have been a&e doctors. They watch it with me sometime and pick it apart and laugh a lot.
I still love it.

When will you see her next? Sometimes a few days to think about it helps ime.

Tues or wed, depending on childcare/work status, I think you might be right though

This week I appear to be excelling in as many Mentally Disordered behaviours as possible. Ffs.

I think I just need to have a lot of sex and drugs and I'll have the full house.

Just played a fairly disturbing GTA mission where I had to torture someone while drinking some of my Russian caravan tea. The way the controller vibrates when you're rotating the thumb stick to wrench the tooth out of the socket is… unpleasant.

There's a weird thread going on in AIBU at the moment. Lots of regulars scoffing at earnest posters for getting caught up in an engineered cat-shit thread. I hate all this insider shit.

Caulk

Eugh, I hate that sort of thing. I tend to just stay on the Threads I'm On bit unless I'm feeling very sociable or very brave.

I know I have sorted it out as bear is possible and just hoping that one day I will grow up and engage in adult behaviours rather than those of my teenage self.

*best not bear

Can't say I can see a massive difference between some of the coping strategies you describe and the socially acceptable adult coping behaviours of eating and drinking yourself into an early grave.

I hope in future you find you don't need to use the coping strategies that distress you so much.